Ten Greek Words Every Catholic Should Know

Catholic Exchange ^ | June 17, 2013 | Stephen Beale

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Grace
χαρις

[Cvengr]

2 most significant Biblical Greek words are PISTIS and GRACIS, followed closely by CHARIS.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“2 most significant Biblical Greek words are...”

May I ask you, most significant based on what?

[vladimir998]

For Greek I liked this as a beginner’s book (get the workbook too), comes with helpful CD: http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Biblical-Grammar-William-Mounce/dp/0310250870

Mounce’s workbook answers are here: http://doxa.teknia.com/bbg3_answers.pdf

Hebrew, same series, this time by Pratico and Van Pelt: http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Biblical-Hebrew-Grammar-Second/dp/0310270200/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371697001&sr=1-2

Workbook and some free online things available if you look hard enough. None of this is too expensive either.

[vladimir998]

See post 24. Some good, well thought out starter stuff for learning Hebrew and NT Greek.

[cornelis]

St. Paul calls himself a doulos.

[Heart-Rest]

Thanks vladimir998 for those suggestions!

[Salvation]

Lectio Divina (Latin)

[Cvengr]

Salvation.

It’s a phrase found in many a Biblical Greek seminary textbook.

I think I saw it first in Mounce.

[D-fendr]

And Bob Dylan said:

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

I realize it’s an opinion... but I would see it from God’s side. Without His grace, there is no payment for sins, no need for faith. It originates with Him, we are held to Him and are positioned in Him because of His grace.

Thanks.

[Iscool]

St. Paul calls himself a doulos.

A servant, of God...Not Mary...Not another man...

[Verginius Rufus]

anamnesis is a noun meaning "a calling to mind" or "recollection," from the verb anamimnesko, "to remind of," "to recall to memory," "to remember."

The ana- part means "again," and mimnesko by itself means "to remind" or "to call to memory." (The root is mna-.)

Alpha by itself at the beginning of a word is sometimes a negative (as in "atheist") but before a vowel an -n- is added so it sometimes looks similar to the ana- prefix.

[Verginius Rufus]

Doulos is a standard Greek word for "slave." St. Paul is calling himself a slave of Jesus Christ. The idea is not new--some Hebrew or other Semitic personal names mark the bearer as a slave of a deity--like Obediah (slave of Yahweh) or Abdullah (slave of Allah).

[cornelis]

Excellent. Nice platonic word.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes: Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon cites "Plat., etc." as using the word.

[Iscool]

Doulos is a standard Greek word for "slave." St. Paul is calling himself a slave of Jesus Christ. The idea is not new--some Hebrew or other Semitic personal names mark the bearer as a slave of a deity--like Obediah (slave of Yahweh) or Abdullah (slave of Allah).

Certainly...But nowhere in scripture are we told to become a slave to any heavenly saints nor a hyper-slave to Mary...

So this Catholic dulia and hyper-dulia is completely out of the question...

They lead us to believe that these two types of worship are veneration; like highly favored, or highly praised, or something similar...

But now we actually see that those words mean to become 'enslaved' to these deities... NO thanks...

[PJ-Comix]

You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word "milo," which is mean "apple," so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word "portokali," which mean "orange." So, okay? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.

[Dajjal]

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